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UN calls for safe passage for 140,000 trapped in southwest Syria

Date: 2018-07-20 12:03:42 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7497400

GENEVA, July 20 (MENA) - The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) appealed to all sides in Syria on Friday to provide safe passage for 140,000 civilians displaced by fighting in the southwest so that they can receive aid and shelter. Speaking at ....

Azhar denounces Jewish Nation-State law

Date: 2018-07-20 09:58:02 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:7497065

CAIRO, July 20 (MENA) - Al Azhar strongly condemned on Friday the approval of the Jewish Nation-State Law, deeming it a move that highlights racism and exposes the true face of Israeli occupation. "Such move represents a new chapter in the ....

Turkish court rejects request to extradite Australian Daesh terrorist

Date: 2018-07-20 07:16:31 GMT - Australia - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:7496822

CANBERRA, July 20 (MENA) - A Turkish court has rejected Australia's request to extradite notorious Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash in a shock ruling overnight that could see him released from jail unless Turkey decides to prosecute ....

President Abbas: Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Palestine

Date: 2018-07-19 21:41:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:104 - ID:7496698

RAMALLAH, July 19 (MENA) - President Mahmoud Abbas affirmed on Thursday in response to the newly enacted Jewish nation-state law passed by the Israeli Knesset -- that the city of Jerusalem shall be the everlasting capital of the State of Palestine, ....

Palestinian FM: "Jewish Nation State" law proves truth about Israel's democracy

Date: 2018-07-19 19:19:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:7495727

RAMALLAH, July 19 (MENA) - Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al Malki stressed that passing the "Jewish Nation State' law by the Knesset proves the falsehood of all Israel’s claims of being a democracy. This law is meant to underpin Israel's ....

Syrian army liberates two villages in Daraa countryside

Date: 2018-07-19 15:51:09 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:73 - ID:7496325

DAMASCUS, July 19 (MENA) - Units of the Syrian army liberated on Thursday the villages of Kherbit al Tair and al Sheikh Saad in the countryside of Daraa. A military source told SANA that army units liberated the two villages after heavy clashes ....

Palestinian killed, three others injured during Israeli raid of southern Gaza

Date: 2018-07-19 14:01:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:54 - ID:7496081

GAZA CITY, July 19 (MENA) - A Palestinian was killed and three others were wounded during an Israeli raid that targeted a group of citizens eastern Rafah city in southern the Gaza Strip, said the Palestinian Health Ministry. In statements on ....

Health Ministry: 142 Palestinians killed, 16,496 injured in March Return protests

Date: 2018-07-19 13:52:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:7495641

GAZA CITY, July 19 (MENA) - The Palestinian Health Ministry said that 142 Palestinians, including 18 children and two women, have been killed and 16,496 injured since the start of the Great March of Return protests in the Gaza Strip on March 30. ....

Putin: Terrorism suffered fatal blow in Syria

Date: 2018-07-19 13:40:45 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:7495945

MOSCOW, July 19 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin affirmed that international terrorism has been dealt a fatal blow in Syria. The Astana platform and the outcomes of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Sochi are the basis of a real ....

Israel's approval of nation-state law highlights discrimination: Palestine

Date: 2018-07-19 12:47:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:7495673

RAMALLAH, July 19 (MENA) - Palestine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday denounced the Israeli Knesset's approval of the so-called Jewish nation-state law, deeming it an attempt by the ruling right-wing to redraw and restructure the occupation ....